University of British Columbia Press
Organizing the Transnational
Labour, Politics, and Social Change
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Organizing the Transnational
Labour, Politics, and Social Change
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Luin Goldring and Sailaja Krishnamurti
Part 1: Institutions, Policies, and Identities
1 State and Media Construction of Transnational Communities: A Case Study of Recent Migration from Hong Kong to Canada / Myer Siemiatycki and Valerie Preston
2 Emerging Postnational Citizenships in International Law: Implications for Transnational Lives and Organizing / Susan J. Henders
3 Transnational Nationalism: Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada / Sarah V. Wayland
4 Demystifying Transnationalism: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Promise of Nation Building / Uzma Shakir
5 On Tim Hortons and Transnationalism: Negotiating Canadianness and the Role of Activist/Researcher / Leela Viswanathan
Part 2: States, Transnational Labour, and Diasporic Capital
6 Globalizing Work, Globalizing Citizenship: Community–Migrant Worker Alliances in Southwestern Ontario / Kerry Preibisch
7 Forcing Governments to Govern in Defence of Noncitizen Workers: A Story about the Canadian Labour Movement’s Alliance with Agricultural Migrants / Stan Raper
8 Transnationalism, Development, and Social Capital: Tamil Community Networks in Canada / R. Cheran
9 Dancing Here, “Living” There: Transnational Lives and Working Conditions of Latina Migrant Exotic Dancers / Gloria Patricia and Díaz Barrero
10 Transnational Work and the Labour Politics of Gender: A Study of Male and Female Mexican Migrant Workers Employed in Canada / Ofelia Becerril
11 Development and Diasporic Capital: Nonresident Indians and the State / Pablo S. Bose
Part 3: Transnational Organizing and Social Change
12 The Institutional Landscapes of Salvadoran Refugee Migration: Transnational and Local Views from Los Angeles and Toronto /